Yongnian County, Handan City, is located in the southern part of Hebei Province. It has vast plains and the Fushui River and Minghe River pass through the area. Yongnian Xidiao, also known as "Sandaban" (because this type of drama mostly performs robe and belt dramas, and the stage is often equipped with a board), and Zezhoudiao, is an independent drama that was formed after the Shanxi Shangdang Bangzi was introduced to Yongnian. In the early days of liberation, the famous artist Mr. Zhao Shuli proposed that it be officially named Xidiao, which means "the tune comes from the west". Yongnian Xidiao has more than 100 traditional dramas, all of which are inherited from Shangdang Bangzi. Among them, the Bangzi dramas include more than 60 such as "Xiaoguoshan" and "Luo Zhang Kneeling in the Tower"; the Huangqiang dramas include more than 30 such as "Exploring Yinshan" and "Empty City Plan"; the Kunqiang dramas include "Enfeoffment" and "Blessing"; the Luoqiang dramas include "Beating the Noodle Jar", "Going to the Tomb", "Top Brick" and so on; the Juan drama repertoire has been lost. Originally, there were five types of tunes in Xidiao: Kun, Bang, Luo, Juan, and Huang. Currently, only Bangzi operas are performed. Yongnian Xidiao belongs to the Banqiang style. The tunes include string tunes and flute tunes. The tunes are complex and diverse, and the cost is complete. It is good at expressing high-pitched, passionate, and unrestrained emotions and lively and cheerful emotions. There are [two slow tunes], [three slow tunes], [four six tunes], [duoban], [slow long leather], [jieban], etc. Among them, [four six tunes] are one beat and one eye, and are notated according to 4/4 beats. It is the most commonly used basic tune of Xidiao. It is good at both narrative and lyrical. In actual singing, it has different speeds due to changes in singing speed. Xidiao is mainly male (red face door), with high-pitched and passionate singing, rough and unrestrained singing, smooth melody, and exciting singing. The melody structure is complete and varied. It often uses fourth, fifth, and octave jumps, and is interspersed with large downward steps. In actual singing, the composition of the singing style rarely has a single style to the end, especially for larger singing segments, which usually start with a rising board, then turn to the basic style, and finally turn to the "sending board" to end. The singing uses a combination of true and false voices, using true voice to pronounce words and false voice to sing. Yongnian Xidiao has a complete range of professions, and the performances learn the performance routines and flipping techniques of Peking Opera and Hebei Bangzi, which are rough, heroic, concise, simple, and have a strong local flavor. The accompaniment instruments of Yongnian Xidiao are very unique. The leading instrument, the first string saw qin, is an authentic homemade national instrument with a short pole and a thick and long qin tube. It is made of catalpa or paulownia wood, and the strings are made of leather. It is tuned in the fifth degree, with 6 inside and 3 outside; the second string (homemade Jinghu), with 3 inside and 6 outside, is tuned in the fourth degree; the third string (gourd), a bass instrument, is similar to the erhu, with a longer pole and a flat tube, and the sound is deep and thick. The singing and recitation abandoned the Jin dialect and moved closer to the Beijing dialect and rhymed dialect. Yongnian Xidiao attracted local people with its unique artistic charm and became an indispensable cultural nutrition in the lives of local people. However, there is only one professional Xidiao troupe in Yongnian in Hebei Province, and the art of Xidiao is on the verge of extinction.